captainsolo said:
Meaning of Life
Beyond frustrating, rushed, slipshod, annoying at many times, terribly unfunny in many places. This is a mess of a picture that ultimately NEVER works because they rushed into production without a break, creative recharge, or even decent material. The sketches never flow, they merely bang into one another, and what should be hysterical (Sex education etc) fails to spark. Other bits are painfully unfunny ("Every sperm"), pointless (all the couple on vacation bits), and downright disgusting (Creosote. Good grief.). It drags on so badly that one wishes the "Get on with it!" extras could have been reassembled to yell for the remainder of the feature. A criminal waste, made only worse by a mindbogglingly long Gilliam "short" that precedes the film for almost 20 minutes!
An extremely over-generous 2 balls out of 4. Primarily for the liver donor sketch. Uni's BD is at least cheap enough and the new hour long discussion with the five remaining Pythons is better than the film itself.
I really like "Meaning of Life". I'd give it 3.5 balls out of 4. I've only watched it once though, and I was stoned, but I laughed my balls off.